Of course, reproduction without any forethought is one of the things that leads to that lack of future.

Yep. That’s a jumper.

This is a brown recluse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_recluse_spider#/media/File:Loxosceles_reclusa_adult_male_4.jpg

It turned the mice electric?

Pregnancy has been traditionally defined as the period of time eggs are incubated in the body after the egg-sperm union.[1] Although the term often refers to placental mammals, it has also been used in the titles of many international, peer-reviewed, scientific articles on fish, e.g. Consistent with this definition, there are several modes of reproduction in fish, providing different amounts of parental care

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pregnancy_in_fish

Going off of this, it’s just a matter of the term “pregnancy” being co-opted to describe something completely different from what it means in its original context. As does happen, even in science.

The young are then released into the water, and the male often mates again within hours or days during the breeding season

Oh, god. They have a pregnancy fetish.

So, I opened this without looking at the source community. I’m on an RPG meme community as well. I was actually predicting a pun on a certain phylactery-using undead. Only as it was loading did I realize I had a chance for the science memes sub instead.

I still remember that as the advice a herpetologist have about holding a baby snapping turtle when I was in Boy Scouts.

There’s one on zebra jumpers. Gonna have to get to that when I got a spare half hour.

Love those little guys!

I love jumpers because they’re cute. The anime sized front facing eyes and movements that make them look so damn curious all the time—I just can’t get over those.

Even a Meeseeks isn’t in this much pain.

Silverfish. They eat silverfish, and that is why I am on Team Silverware.

Where’s the Mercury?

I managed to do that with Abbey Road of all things, though a Round Trip example. Started the album on my way out. Paused it while doing some errands. Went home, and it finished up just as I pulled in. Of course, I had to get lucky with traffic flow, so I don’t expect to be able to intentionally repeat it.

The point isn’t there being a ‘real’ solution. The point is that there wasn’t really a problem to begin with. This is more like when your party assumes a door is trapped and takes an hour to decide how to approach it, but the door was really just a rotted normal door ready to fall off its hinges.

I’m generally not big on that approach. But then again, I rarely play at levels where the PCs can really take that superhero approach. Could be interesting to roll with that some time.

DMed a game where an otyugh dragged a PC into it’s trash pit. Bit of a Death Star trash compactor scenario. But he got out and the party beat the otyugh within an inch of its life before it retreated.

When the party passed by the same pit, I described one the otyugh’s eyestalks sticking out before it Noped back under.

Oh, I love that metaphor.

One of the primary reasons Reddit cited for its API rule changes was LLMs profiting off its data for free.

Its data? Seems to me that most of that “data” was actually generated by users. Which Reddit, in turn, profited off for free.

Only one punch? Letting them off easy, I see.

I tend to go with the “distract myself” method. Think about some song, movie, game, etc. Keeps the brain from ruminating on that shit. And usually can manage it long enough that the thought’s barely a vague memory afterwards.

Basically, the idea is: Don’t feed the demon.